Fda Looking For Glass Particles In Baby Food

February 20, 1986|By United Press International

ATLANTA — Food and Drug Administration analysts examined Gerber baby food jars from three Georgia stores Wednesday to determine if any contained the glass particles reported by consumers in Georgia, Florida and New York.

Lamar Furr, director of compliance for the FDA in Atlanta, said the jars were picked up from grocery stores in Statesboro and Swainsboro, where an unidentified woman said she found the glass when she was feeding her 9-month- old daughter.

''We'll be looking to determine which Gerber plant filled the units,'' Furr said. ''We're trying to find out if the problem is local or widespread.''

The Georgia contamination was reported in jars of strained bananas and strained carrots. A Miami couple reported finding slivers of glass in a bottle of Gerber cherry-apple juice.

A Georgia sheriff confirmed his deputy saw the glass particles. The other reports have come from consumers.

The glass was found less than 24 hours after Gerber said there was no basis for ''all the hoopla'' surrounding claims by Katleen Ringhoff of Schenectady, N.Y., that she found glass particles in a jar of Gerber strained peaches.